[16054] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.1.18: matlab
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Wed Jul 29 18:13:33 1998
To: estherw@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [16046]
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:13:29 EDT
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Hello.
The error you reported from FIXSTEXT is due to changes in matlab's
graphics functions in ver. 5. This function (and the rest of the
Styled Text Toolbox) is user-contributed, not from the vendor:
>> which fixstext
/mit/matlab_v5.2/distrib/toolbox/contrib/graphics/stextfun/fixstext.m
>> help stextfun
Styled Text Toolbox.
Version 3.1, 10 June 1996
Copyright 1995-1996 by Douglas M. Schwarz. All rights reserved.
schwarz@kodak.com
...
Some of the functionality first provided by this toolbox has been
incorporated in more recent versions of matlab, and this may be why
the author hasn't updated the toolbox for ver. 5.
Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to check all contrib
toolboxes for compatibility issues; instead we've made the ver. 4.2
contrib files available under ver. 5, and are selectively
removing/replacing them as problems appear. If there are other useful
tools there which haven't been superseded by the vendor-supplied
functions, it may be worth contacting the author about whether he
plans to make a newer version available.
Abby Fox
Academic Computing
